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| LOCAL ELECTIONS IN ROMANIA 02/06/2008 |
| (2008-06-02) |
| Last updated: 2008-06-03 15:37 EET |
18 million voters were called to the ballots in the first local elections in Romania after the country’s entry into the European Union in 2007. Voters had to elect their mayors, local and county councillors and county council presidents. According to early preliminary results, the turnout stood at 46.59%. The figure was generally higher in rural areas. In Bucharest for example, the turnout was only 31%. The race was very tight in the capital city, and the new mayor will be known in two weeks’ time, after the run-off. Partial results show the independent candidate Sorin Oprescu is ahead of Vasile Blaga, from the pro-presidential Liberal Democratic Party, in opposition.
A run-off will also be held in other big cities like Iasi, in the north- east, Brasov, in the centre, Craiova, in the south, and Galati, in the east. The Black Sea port of Constanta, Timisoara, in the west and Cluj Napoca in the centre elected their mayors in the first round. In Sibiu, which is home to a large German ethnic community, the incumbent mayor Klaus Johannis won a second term with 90% of the votes. The candidates of the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians won the majority ethnic Hungarian towns of Odorheiul Secuiesc and Miercurea Ciuc.
The local elections are seen as an indicator for the parliamentary elections due in autumn, based for the first time on the uninominal voting system. The results in the first round of the local elections already show the hierarchy on the political scene: the Liberal Democratic Party, the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party. Political analyst Cristian Parvulescu:
“This is no news. This trend has been visible since 1992. On the one hand we first had the Democratic Convention, then the Justice and Truth Alliance and now the Liberal Democratic Party. On the other, we had the National Salvation Front in 1992 or the Social Democratic Party today, either way the same party gathering the former president Ion Iliescu and the current party leader Mircea Geoana. The big fight will actually be fought inside the Social Democratic Party between those who advocate a big coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party and those who support an anti-presidential coalition together with the National Liberal Party. Things will become clearer in the next few days.”
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